Every time Turkish farmer Fatih Sik drives his tractor across his cornfields he knows the earth could open up and swallow him at any moment. Two giant sinkholes have already appeared on his land in Konya, a vast agricultural province known as Turkey’s breadbasket. “Anywhere could sink, I keep thinking. And I know I’d be […]
Whether it’s President Biden, former President Trump, or someone else, the person occupying the White House in 2025 may have to worry about bond vigilantes. Bond vigilantes are traders that will use, or threaten to use, the bond market to protest the government’s spending or its inaction on the deficit. They can sell their bonds, […]
A young Pittsburgh couple is terrified the home next door is going to collapse to the ground. It is a condemned duplex on Columbus Avenue, owned by the City of Pittsburgh. There are only a few feet between the condemned homes that are falling apart and the couple’s home. The family started getting concerned in […]
Record numbers of people are leaving New Zealand as the cost of living crisis is being compounded by limited job opportunities. In a “significant exodus”, the year to April 2024 saw a net migration loss of 56,500 citizens, up 12,000 from the previous record, said Firstpost. With fewer people arriving in New Zealand, there are […]
It was night when residents began hearing gunshots in the remote southern Mexico town of Tila. Then came trucks and the voices of men discussing which houses to burn. Flames began to leap around the town in Chiapas state. Five hours of shooting were followed by three days during which people hid inside their homes […]
LEESBURG, Fla. – A Florida man was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly flashed a driver during a road rage incident in Lake County. James Box, 56, was arrested and charged with exposure of sexual organs after the incident that unfolded on U.S. Highway 27 in Leesburg on Sunday afternoon, according to an arrest […]
Jun. 24—Voters in at least five school districts across Maine earlier this month rejected school budgets that would have resulted in sizable property tax increases. In other communities, budgets passed, but just barely. Gorham, for example, is gearing up for a recount this week after its budget passed by just four votes. Steve Bailey, executive […]
(Bloomberg) — Rishi Sunak’s chances of avoiding a landslide defeat in the UK general election dwindled further as his governing Conservative Party struggled to contain revelations that several of the prime minister’s close aides placed bets on the date of the vote. Most Read from Bloomberg A report in the Sunday Times that a senior […]
Since the first great tank battle at Cambrai on November 20, 1917, the great and the good have foretold the end of these armoured beasts. Yet over 100 years later, the metal box with tracks and a gun is still tearing up the battlefields of eastern Europe. The adaptability of the basic tank platform is […]
bunhill/Getty Images Stocks have been on a tear but there are still bears sounding alarms of a bubble about to pop. Bearish forecasters predict a crash as lofty valuations come back down to earth. S ome big-name investors say stocks are flashing a number of warnings that a sharp pullback is near. Stocks just keep […]
The weekly cartoon caption contest in the New Yorker magazine is what retired Judge Glen Reiser calls “a thing.” It attracts more than 5,000 entries every week. Roger Ebert, the late film critic, submitted captions 200 times and won once. Chicago lawyer Lawrence Wood entered more than 900 times. He won on eight occasions and […]
Russian officer Farkhad Ziganshin had prepared himself for a life of military service since a young age. He could never have imagined that one day he would become a deserter and flee the country. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed everything. “I don’t support what’s happening in Ukraine, I don’t support the government we’ve had for […]